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VOL. XXI. NUMBER 94.
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• CHASEJFBANDITS
Kill Four Bandits on Expe
dition and Return Without
a Casualty and in Good
♦ Condition
MARFA, Tex., Aug. 25.—Three
hundred and seventy-five American
cavalrymen, who last Tuesday en
tered Mexico in pursuit of the ban
dits who held Lieutenants Harold G
Peterson and Paul N. Davis for ran
som, were back on American soil to
day, following abandonment of the ■
chase yesterday. The troops today
resumed patrol of the border.
''Heavy rains yesterday, which ob
literated the trails of the bandits,
brought a decision to abandon the
chase after contact had been made
with Carranza troops.
The troops, after riding for hours
in a heavy rainstorm, began at 11
o’clock to cross the river at Rocky
•ford, seven miles from Ruidosa. The
main column was delayed for two
hours because of the storm.
The cavalry slept under roofs last
night for the first time since last
Monday, when the expedition was
formed.
During the six days the American
puntive expedition was below the
border four bandits were killed by
the troops and another by airmen,
while nine bandits are reported to
been captured at Coyame by
Carranza soldiers. The captured ban
dits are said to have been members
of the Jesus Renteria band which
captured Lieutenants Peterson and
Davis.
Lieutenants George K. Rice and U. :
L. Bouquet, American aviators, who
were reported missing below the Rio
Grande yesterday after they had left
Royce field for Mexico to reconnoiter
for the punititve expedition, were lo
cated last night at Terlinqua, Tex.
They had become lost in the rain
'sJorm and made a forced landing. ‘
Neither flyer was injured.
A report brought to the border by
Lieutenant Peterson that Jesus Ren
teria, leader of the bandits, was
killed by American airmen, could not
be confirmed.
The cavalry troops came out of ■
Mexico in excellent condition and j
without casualties, after five days ;
of hard riding.
RESUME SEARCH FOR
TWO MISSING AVIATORS I
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Aug. 25. —Army ,
from Rockwell field and I
troops from Fort Rosecrans, re- ,
sumed today the search for Lleu-
* tenants Cecil Connelly and Fred- !
erick Waterhouse, army aviators ■
detailed to Mexican border patrol I
duty, who have been missing since i
last Wednesday, with orders to find 1
them, dead or alive.
The aviators were expected to de- I
vote their attention to the stretch ■
of broken and chaparrel-covered des- .
ert lying between Campo", in east- ,
ern San Diego county and San ■
■Felipe, near the head of the Gulf I
of California, between which points >
an American, employed at a mine I
forty miles south of Campo, re
ported he had seen an airplane in
flight Wednesday.
Two detachments of troops, car
rying complete field equipment and
six days rations, have been ordered
Jo ■ prosecute the search southward
from the border. A third detach
ment under command of Captain G.
O. Crank, medical corps, equipped
with motor trucks and carrying gas
pline and food for twenty-one days,
proceeded yesterday southward by
way of Tia Juana, lower Califor
nia. Captain Crank said he would
continue 200 miles south of Tia
Juana and sixty miles inland from
the Gulf of California where he
would camp.
BELIEVES RENTERIA HAS
iBEEN KILLED FROM ’PLANE
MARFA, Tex., Aug. 25. —Major
James P. Yancey, commander of
the American punitive expedition,
told the Associated Press over
the army field telephone at Ruidosa
today that he considered the repoi t
authentic that Jesus enteria, bandit
leader, had been shot and killed
from an American airplane last
Tuesday.
One-Legged Marine
• ’Asks Permission to
Do Another “Hitch”
CHICAGO, Aug. 25. Former Gun
nery Sergeant Joseph Weitzel, of the |
“devil dogs,” has but one good leg.
But he wants to get back into the I
game and today was awaiting word .
from Major General George Barnett
in charge of marine recruiting, fo
permission to re-enlist.
Today the marines had a big pi ;
-ade, and prominent among the
marchers was Sergeant Weitzal. H<
wTS the first Chicagoan to return
home wounded. They “got him” b«
fore Verdun in September, 1918.
Weitzel, when making application
for re-enlistment, waived all claims
for compensation for the loss of hi
limb.
Mount Vesuvius Begins
Eruption; No Danger Yet
ROME. Aug. 24. (Delayed.)
After loud underground rumblings
Mfiiint Vesuvius began erupting to
diW, two streams of lava flowing
toward the valley. So far the erup
tion has not been so heavy as to
threaten the villages at the base of
the mountains.
Stomach Trouble or Tape
worm Banished.
Many persons who suffer from
stomach trouble really have a tape
worm and don’t know it. A guaran
teed remedy which has proven to be
remarkably effective in expelling
tapeworms and giving quick.relief in
all forms of stomach trouble is being
sent on free trial by the Schoenherr
Co., Dept. 55, Milwaukee, Wis. They
guarantee it to remove, in less than
one hour, any tapeworm with its
No pain, no dieting, no dan
ger; also, to relieve any form of
stomach trouble or it costs nothing.
advantage of their free trial of
flr. Write them today.— (Advt.)
WOMEN FIGHT FOREST FIRES
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FLINT. —Shoveling sand and fetching water to fight the forest fires
of the state of Michigan, are the jobs of these two women. Edyth Beals
and Ethlyn Thayer. They are the first women forest fire fighters to be
on the state’s payroll.
Every Member Is a “Dope Fiend” in the
World’s Strangest Club Formed Recently
BY JACK NEVILLE
To stamp out the traffic in illicit
drugs and its terrible toll, shown
to be on an alarming increase in
America, government, state and
municipal authorities are establish
ing in San Francisco the strangest !
club in the country.
It is an association of men and
women enslaved by narcotics.
It will haul this sinister thing into
the open and legitimatize it for a
period in order to destroy it—destroy
it by curing the victims instead of
hounding the elusive vendors.
The club is to be based on a mu
nicipal drug dispensaary where
’•fiends” may buy their rations at
cost price; where they will be under
observation, and where, through a
tapering off process and under the
care of .experts, cure and reclamation
inay be effected.
It is the first of a chain of such
institutions to be established in all
the larger cities,’ providing the San
Francisco experiment proves suc
cessful. •
There is but one requirement for
membership—the applicant must be a
drug addict.
Ten thousand* San Franciscans are
expected to apply for membership,
under their cwn names or any aliases
they may choose. Daily rations of
morphine, cocaine, heroin, opium and
strychnine are to be sold at one-tenth
to one-eighth the price now demand
ed by drug traffickers. Daily the
dose is to be diminished until the
addict is relieved.
Instead of sneaking into alleys,
dark hallways and into rendezvous
beneath sidewalks to meet drug ven
dors addicts will come and go it
the clubhouse as freely as they would
enter or leave their own homes.
There will be no police, no govern
ment secret agents, no social work
ers. One department will be for
women, the other for men.
In charge of the institution will
be reputable psychopathic physicians
who-. give their services gratuitous
ly. Every club member will be un-
He Flees Germany
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HULL. —brick Leiszner is a very
jiudacious small boy who tired of
tEexpoverty of his family in Ger
many, smuggled himself aboard a
steamer for Hull and when found
announced his intention of making
his way to New York and walking
from there to -Frisco, which he
thought was about a day’s journey,
He is ill.and has an uncle in San
Francisco.
Drug Plague Spreads
There aie today 4,000,000 illicit
drug slaves in the United States.
The increase has been marked
since the passing of liquor.
I Seattle, Washington, Pacific
l coast headquarters of a gigantic
; drug ring,” is said by police to
have 18,000 habitues.
San Francisco, by statistics,
. has over 10,001).
Other large cities sho wa pro
portionate number of cocaine,
morphine, opium, heroin and oth
er drug “fiends.”
Enslavement is not confined to
underworld districts, but has
spread to the more exclusive resi
dential sections and even into the
schools of larger communities.
It costs a moderate user of
drugs from $2 to $lO a day to in
dulge his habit.
der medical observation, and when
his cure has been affected his name
or aliases will be taken- from the
books.
■ Lounging and reading roo/ns are
to be fitted out with flowers, drapes
and furnishings to create an atmos
phere psychologically necessary for
, the reclamation of drug slaves.
The project is sponsored by Jus
tus S. Wardell, collector of internal
revenues; Mayor James Rolph, Jr.,
and several state officials. It is said
several wealthy men, former drug
addicts who fought their way to rea
son through great mental and physi
cal .torture, are backing the clinic
for the relief of narcotic victims.
United States Commissioner of Rev
enue Roper has instructed Wardell
to put his plan into operation and
the institution is to have the spon
sorship of the government. It is" to
be a. national experiment and if it
succeeds the government will prob
ably adopt it in every large center
of the c.ountry. \
Speaking of the new experiment
Wardell says: “These men should
not be dealt with as criminals. They
are sick men; some to the point of
insanity. All of them earnestly de
sire to be cured and will welcome
relief in any form. The drug habit
cannot be eradicated as long as there
are such huge criminal profits.
“The prosecution of traffickers and
the seizure of habitforming drugs is
but lopping off the branches of a
plant: as long as the roots are there
they will sprout fresh shoots. What
we propose to do is to kill the roots
of the evil so the traffic and habit
will die simultaneously.
“When a man suffers for lack of
narcotics ne will commit crimes to
obtain relief. With a man earning
S2O weekly and his craving demand
ing S4O worth of such drugs, the
logical result is crime to obtain the
other S2O. There are 4,000,000 drug
addicts in the United States and as
long as they remain uncured drug
traffickers will continue to prey on
them and the victims will commit
crimes against society.
“With the proposed club selling
unadulterated drugs ' to addicts at
wholesale costs, traffickers will be
forced out of business. In the mean
time distinguished psychologists and
neurologists will cure the victim o' -
his vicious habt.”
Here’s a Chance for
Girls to Be Cops”
In Czecho-Slovakia
NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—Here's an
opportunity for four American
women to become “policemen” in
Czecho-Slovakia. The commission
er of police in Prague has requested
that the American Y. W. C. A.
choose four women from the num
ber attending the Y. W. C. A. sum
mer training camp and give them
special work to fit them for work
with delinquent women and chil
dren. He will appoint them to po
lice work at the close of the school
in autumn, according to announce
• ment made today through the Y.
W. C. A. here.
Rush Irwin Drawn
On Jury Selected
For His Own trial
Rush Irwin, of 226 Peeples street,
I whorls confined in the tower with
out bond on a charge of having shot
and killed George J. Moody at the
former’s home several weeks ago.
has been drawn to serve on his
own jury. His name was among
the number taken from the jury
box in the criminal division of the
superior court Saturday and was
| until a deputy sheriff
was given a copy of the script to
1 iierve.
ATLANTA, GA. TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1919.
LIKENS EIM'S
POSITION IN ESYPT
TO m«ws
Ex-Governor Folk Scores
Great Britain Before Com
mittee Japan May Be
Forced to Publish Promise
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Likening
Great Britain’s legal position in
Egypt to that of a highwayman, Jos
eph W. Folk, counsel for the Egyp
tian peace delegation, told the senate
foreign relations committee today
that the Versailles treaty proposed
to validate the “robbery” of Egyp
tian independence.
Having occupied Egypt after the
construction of the Suez canal under
the pretext of protecting the Egyp
tians from rebels, Mr. Folk said,
Great Britain, in 1914. “seized the
Egyptian government and now pro
posed the treaty to reduce her
to a subject nation.”
The treaty, he said, would make
Egypt’s grievances against Great
Britain an internal question so that
it could not be dealt with by the
League of Nations.
“The people of Egypt,” the wit
ness declared, “want a League of
Nations which will protect their in
dependence and not destroy it. They
ask you not to deny them that self
determination for which more than a
million Egyptians fought in the war
just ended.” ,
The delegation sent to the Paris
conference by the Egyptian repre
sentative assembly, Mr. Folk said,
were held in “virtual imprisonment”
and were not permitted to even send
He declared the protectorate claimed
He declared the protetorate claimed
by Great Britain over Egypt was
“the sort of protectorate that a high
wayman would claim over your pock
etbook.” y
Great Britain repeatedly had pledg
ed, Mr. Folk said, that her occupa
tion of Egypt would be temporary
and he asked that a.clause, be writ
ten into the treaty giving Egypt the
right to appeal to the league coun
cil.
Republican members of the com
mittee suggested, however, that the
legue was to be controlled by the
same powers as made the treaty
and that Great Britain’s rights in
Egypt already had been recognized
formally by the American state de
partment.
Referring to the outbreaks against
British rule in Egypt, Mr. Folk said
Great Britain had “suppressed” the
news of what wa> taking place and
did not want the United States, es
pecially, to learn the facts if it could
be helped.
Pressure on Japan
A renewed attempt to force Japan
to publish the agreement whereby
she guaranees the ultimate return of
Shantung to China is believed likely
today as a result of the senate situa
tion growing out of the amendment
of the foreign relations committee.
This agreement, while verbal in so
far as the records the peace con
ference are concerned, is in existence
in writing. The Japanese, however,
have heretofore consistently refused
to permit its publication. An attempt
to obstruct the “release” of the act
ual wording of this agreement was
made some two months ago in Paris.
Other po Vers approached the Japa
nese on the subject, but with no suc
cess. The president, consequently has
been forced to refuse to give it to
the senate.
While administration senators are
confident of beating the Shantung
amendment on the floor, they recog
nize that the fight must be made on
the principle that in order to assure
early restoration of peace, the treaty
should be ratified without amend
ment or reservations.
It is known that many diplomats
connected with the peace conference
feel that the president’s hand would
be strengthened, should the actual
text of the Japanese agreement be
published. For that reason the pre
vious attempt to smoke out the
■Japanese had some support from
other powers, which are anxious to
see early American ratification of the
treaty. A rene-wed attempt might be
expected to get the same support.
Ireland Honors Noted Indian
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V: Jleh-ta.
Dr. M. V. Mehta, famous sur
geon of India, is on his way to
Ireland to receive fellowship re
cently conferred upo"h him by the
Royal College of Physicians. Dr.
Mehta’s great charitable hospital
at Bombay is the first institution
devoted exclusively to caring for
the native sick in India. Rich In
dian princes recently gave half a
million dollars to Dr. Mehta to
further his remarkable medical
research. He will spend three
months in America.
Japs Inflaming Russia
Against Us, He Says
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WzZ/juc? FleisheJtjr
Wilfrid Fleisher, Jr., American
newspaper man and son of an Eng
lish-language publisher of Tokyo,
declares that Japan is doing every
thing in her power to discredit
America in the minds of the Rus
sians. Fleisher, who has been in
Siberia for the past year, says the
allies should either send an ade
quate army of intervention into
Russia or withdraw altogether.
“The Japanese,” he insists, “have
persuaded the Russians in Siberia
that America is only interested in
the financial outlook and will make
the country pay through the nose
if they gain the upper hand.
Fleisher agrees that Kolchak, the
anti-Bolshevik leader, is losing
prestige in Russia and needs rein
forcements of allied troops to in
sure his success,
SECRETARY BAKER
UPHOLDS MARTIAL
COURTS OF NATION
WASHINGTON, Aug. 35.—1 n ap
proving the report submitted to him
by Major General Francis J. Ker
nan, head of the special war de
partment board of courts-martial
and their procedure. Secretary Ba
ker today has taken the official
stand that the present system
should not be changed except in mi
nor details. Inferentially the sec
retary upheld General Kernan’s
view that “courts-martial have al
ways been agencies for creating
and maintaining the discipline of
armies,” rather than agencies for
the “nice exemplification of techni
cal rules of law.”
The war department’s board re
port reflected the opinion of 225
officers who were circularized.
More than half of these gave hear
ty approval to the present system,
43 condemned it as basically wrong
and the remainder, a total of 67,
pointed out specific weaknesses
which they thought should be reme
died. Temporary officers were
about equally divided for and
against any changes. (
The most serious defect in the
existing system, the report asserts,
arises from the “lack of competent
trial judge advocates and counsel”
and as a remedy it is recommend
ed that defense counsel be appoint
ed for each general and special
court-martial, and that special In
ducements be offered young offi
cers to study law in order that they
may be fitted for these and other
special duties.
“It is noticeable,” the report said,
“that officers who served with
fighting units are as a class favor
able to the present articles; on the
other hand, officers whose duties
kept them remote from the scenes
of battle view the system with a
more critical eye and manifestly
compare it with commercial prac
tice in the civil community to the
advantage of the latter.”
If Preachers Strike
Where Will We Be?
NEW YORK, August 25.—There is
nation-wide unrest among preachers
of America, said the Rev. John Roach
Straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist
church, today, commenting on the
sermon he delivered last night on
the personal responsibility of the
devil for pfiteering and labor un
rest.
“Should the preachers strike?” was
the announced topic of the sermon.
“Everybody in the world almost has
now gone on strike except the preach
ers and the undertakers, and I sup
pose we will be the next to fall
inn line,” Stratton said.
He suggested that after red-hot ad
dresses and other strike activities,
a resolution might be adopted by the
striking preachers, concluding with
the sentence:
“But here and now we declare
to our churches and to the general
public that unless we are given, im
mediately an eight-hour day and a
50 per cent boost in salary we will
go on strike and let them all go
to hell.”
Buzz Saw Hits Man
And Splits Head Open
Clifford G. Crossman. thirty-five
years old, superintendent of public
works of Winsted, Conn., was killed
instantly at his home on West Hill
road when a revolving twenty-inch
buzz saw struck him in the face,
splitting his head and nearly severing
his right arm.
His two sons, Harold, fourteen, an<i
Donald, thirteen, saw the accident.
Donald narrowly escaped his father’s
late, thG flying wheel passing within
a foot of him. Donald was passing
the wood and Harold was throwing
the sawed blocks in a pile when, it
is believed, a stick in Crossman’s
hands became caught in the saw.
wrenching it. with both bearings,
from the framework.
Got Up for Water, Fell
Downstairs to His Death
Thomas Keogan. fifty-five years
old. is dead at his home in Altamont
avenue. Sea Cliff, L. 1., as the re
sult of a plunge headlong down the
stairs of his home in the night. He
arose to get a glass of water, missed
his footing at the top step and
fell to the; bottom. His neck was
broken and' his skull fractured.
HOUSE TO VOTE ON
fIPPRDPRIATIDPi TO
I FIGHTJUL SOON
Lard Price Here Cut —May-
or Key Insists That Gro
cers Handling U. S. Food
Carry Full Stocks
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—The
$2,400,000 asked by Attorney Gen
i eral Palmer for prosecution of prof
iteers and for anti-trust suits prob
ably will be started through con
gress this week, house leaders indi
cated today.
Requests of other departments for
funds, however, may be rejected
for the present.
The house appropriations commit
tee today was scheduled to meet
to take up Mr. Palmer's request and
they probably will be embodied In
a special deficiency measure which
immediately will be carried before
the house.
Committee members feel, accord
ing to Chairman Good, that a series
of prosecutions of profiteers will
have more immediate effect in re
ducing the high cost of living at
this time than any other official
action.
FOOD COMMITTEE CUTS
PRICE ON LARD HERE
At its meeting Monday morning
the Fulton county "fair-price” com
mitee reduced the prices fixed Sat
urday for pure lard and lard com
pounds. The price for pure lard
was reduced from 42 to 40 cents a
pound for bulk purchases. The price
of lard compounds was reduced from
34 to 33 dents a pound for bulk pur
chases.
For purchases of pure lard and
lard compounds in 2,4, 6 and 8-
pound buckets a differential rate pre
vails which is allowed by the com
mittee to be from 2 to 2 1-2 cents
higher a pound than for the bulk
purchases.
Several cases of alleged food
hoarding are scheduled to come up
for hearing before Judge Samuel H.
Sibley, of the federal court, who al
ready has temporarily disposed of
one case of this character. This in
volved about 7,009 nounds of sugar
belonging to C. L. Quartemus, of Co
lumbus, Ga., which was seized by
authorities (ew days
ago. Judge Sibley allowed Qftarte
mus to give bond for the sugar and
sell it out within sixty days at not
more than 11 cents per pound.
Judge Sibley has indicated that no
special grand jury will be called to
consider food cases, as the regular
gran ’ jury meets on September 15,
and it is thought by the authorities
that nothing will develop to necessi
tate the assembling of the grand
jurors before that date. »
Reports to the effect that the fair
price committee is to fix prices on
clothing, shoes and fuel are denied
by Mr. Manget. who declares that
the government has given the fair
price committee no authority to take
such action, although there are in
dications that the scope of the food
control act may be extended to cover
those commodities.
The investigation i - the depart
ment of justice of the quantities of
food products held by wholesalers
and retailers in this territory is be
ing carried forward rapidly,' accord
ing to L. J.' Baley, head of the de
partment for this district. The in
ventories showing the amount of
food, with the prices paid by the
dealers and the prices charged to
consum*ers,« are being placed in the
hands of the prosecuting officers as
fast as completed.
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of what Paris critics say are the prettiest L?gs in existence, is in the
United States. Her limbs are insured for
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This Is the woman who told
President Wilson that the women
of the United States will elect the
next president. She is Mrs.
George Bass, chairman of the
Women’s Bureau of the Demo
cratic National committee.
INJURED WOMAN,
DECLINING AID,
DIES NEAR ROME
ROME? Ga., Aug. 25.—Mrs. L. A.
Kurdendal, of Hebra Springs, Ark.,
died here as the result of an auto
mobile accident, having refused, it is
said, to accept medical aid, claiming
that it was against Biblical teaching
to do so. A daughter, Frances, who
was painfully hurt, likewise is said
to have refused assistance.
The husband, L. A. Kurkendal,
was placed under arrest because of
his action in the matter. A coron
er’s jury in Bartow county recom
mended that he be held for the
courts. He has furnished bond.
The party, composed of parents,
two sons and a daughter, was en
route to the home of a brother liv
ing near Acworth. Just outside the
Cartersville city limits the car, driv
en by one of the boy§, overturned
and pinned Mrs. Kurdendal beneath
it. When passersby attempted to
relieve the sufferings of the injur
ed woman and young girl they were
told, it is said, that no aid was de
sired.
The tourists explained that they
were members of a religious sect
and that the teachings of their faith
would not permit them to receive
medical attention.
Every effort to aid them was
made, but they refused all proffers
and repulsed both county Officers and
physicians, according to testimony
at the inquest. Mrs. Kurdendal died
twenty-four hours after tho acci
dent.
Wife Knew When Hubby
Fell; Perfume Was Not Hers
Fred Rossner has found out Xhat
his wife knows just exactly whaf
kind of perfume she uses; and that
if he will insist on being “vamped”
he must be careful about coming
home with the odor of strange per
fumes about him.
The other night when he came in
redolent of sweet perfumes, Mrs.
Rossner sniffed the atmosphere just
once, and then set out in search of
the owner of the perfume, which
was not the kind she used. She did
not find the lady ljut she found a
number of very affectionate missives
signed “Harriet,” and “Your loving
baby,” etc.’ ,
Suit for divorce followed. ,
SCKNTS A COPY.
$1.25 A YEAH.
WILSON AND SINES
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Four Courses Are Left Open
to the Government in
Considering Demands of
Railroad Shopmen
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Copyright, 1919, for The Atlanta Journal.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Presi
dent Wilson and Walker D. Hines,
director general of railroads today
agreed to a settlement of the issues
involved in the railroad shopmen’s
demand for increased wages. The
settlement constitutes the govern
ments conception of its duty both,
as an administrator of the railroad
systems of the country and a rep
resentative of the interests of the
tax-paying public. Four courses
were open to the federal govern
ment when the railroad shopmen
asked for increases of from 68 to
85 cents an hour. First, the de
mands could be rejected entirely on
the ground that any increase in
wages would have to be transfer
red to an already over-burdened
public who wold have to pay higher
freight rites and thus increase the
cost of livings
Second, the demands could be ac
cepted in full and high rates impos
ed to compensate the government
for deficits Incurred. Third, the is
sue could be compromised and in
stead of paying 'seventeen cents
more an hour to machinists, boiler
makers, riveters and blacksmiths,
electricians and so on, as demanded
or 27 cents to car repairers, or fif
teen cents to helpers, which con
stitute the full extent of labor’s
demands, the government could pay
a wage corresponding to what is
paid in other government institu
tions such as shipyards and arse
nals. Fourth, the government could
recognize the necessity for some in
creases in pay due to the high cost
of living, but at the same time it
could investigate the truth of the
railroad shopmen’s claim that their
wages have never been equalized
with respect to the wages of loco
motive engineers and other classes
of 4’ailroad employes.
These various, questions. called
for investigation into previously
existing wage increases as well as
the cost of living. For one thing
it was found that the cost of liv
ing had increased from 1914 to
1919 at. least 71 per cent. This
made Impossible from a government
point of view the absolute rejection
of the railroad men’s demands.
Moreover the agitation for a na
tionalized railroad system as out
lined by Glenn Plumb was not with
out significance and it has been the
government’s desire to do as much
as was possible to quiet instead of
stimulate the growing s social un
rest due to reconstruction difficul
ties and the cost of living. Simi
larly, it seemed that an ificrease
in wages granting everything that
the shopmen asked for Would not
roc-rely &ea bad example from the
viewpoint of the relations between
capital and labor generally but was
absolutely unjustified on tne basis
of postwar conditions.
This left for determination the
question of whether the claim of
the railroad shopmen that their wa
ges had not been equalised with re
spect to other classes of ( railroad
employes was a fact. And their
i l aj m being well founded it becanfe
he duty of the government to de
cide how much increase would be
granted to bring about such an
equalization.
President Wi|son and Director
icenral Hines have been in constant
w 2L ere " Ce - Mr ’ Hines at the
White House on Saturday and again
on Sunday, which shows how impor
tant the president regarded as early
an announcement as possible of the
decision, for usually
Mr. Wilson goes down the river week
ends or makes no engagements with
anybody on government business.
Today, after an agreement had been
reached by the president and Mr.
Hines, an invitation was extended to
the general committee of 100 rep
resenting the shopmen to come to
the White House and hear the de
vision from the lips of Mr. Wilson
himself with an explanation, too, of
all the circumstances involved.
Does the government’s decision
avert U strike? That is the big ques
tion now. For it should be remem
mbered that the shopmen had taken a
strike \ote when Mr. Wilson pro
posed that congress create a com
mission to fix wages as well as
freight rates. That vote returnable
yesterday favored a strike. Bat in
the meantime congress declinet to
act, saying the president had ple
nary power. So the vote was taken
on really a dead isgue. It becomes
necessary for the leaders to consult
their men now a d determine wheth
er the government has done all that*
it could under the circumstances. It
would seem to be improbable that
the sbopmeji will care to agitate the
matter further, but will accept the
government’s award and endeavor
not only to render efficient servic
but to demonstrate that it is no--
necessary to leave their work pr,
cipitately and without warning to get
a hearing from their federal em
ployers.
Paris “Bluebeard"’
Gives Judge Scolding
PARIS. -Landru, Paris “Blue
beard,” gains confidence as the
months go by and none of the dozen
murders laid at his door are proved
against him. He even had the te
merity to lecture the court on a
recent appearance in which Landru
acquitted himself of one charge. As
he left the court Landru turned to
the judge and said:
“Please do hot bother me with
confrontations of this kind. We have
more interesting things to discuss,
you and I. You accuse me of 1
don’t know how many crimes,Auid
you do not let me justify myseu.”